Yarris, Kristin2022-08-072022-08-072019Yarris, K. E. (2019). Crisis and caregiving. ReVista (Cambridge), 18(2), 1-7. Retrieved from http://libproxy.uoregon.edu/loginhttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/274868 pagesGenerations can also be considered in relation to social regeneration, revealing how childbearing and childrearing organize family relations of care and membership in and across generations (child/parent/grandparent) within networks of extended kin (see Jennifer Cole and Deborah Durham, Generations and Globalization: Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy, Indiana University Press, 2007). [...]my intergenerational analysis of transnational family life reveals migration's impacts on families in the present, as relations of care are reconfigured across generational lines, from migrant mother to grandmother caregiver, and as family members' responses to migration are infused with memories and meanings from the migratory experiences of past generations. (While Norman and other Nicaraguans are technically eligible to apply for asylum status on the grounds of political persecution, the cost of legal resources for the process make it outside the reach of the majority of migrants from the neighboring country.) In a recent conversation via WhatsApp, I asked Norman about his experience in Costa Rica. All names of research participants herein are changed to protect individuals' anonymity Kristin Elizabeth Yarris is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Studies at the University of Oregon, where she also Co-Directs the Center for Global Health and serves on the Dreamers Working Group.enCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USArticle